Boozy Christmas Cake
Boozy Christmas Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, boozy christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Delicious food from &Cake delivered to your door. It takes a while to infuse the alcohol so make well in advance of Christmas but well worth it! Boozy Christmas Cake is a community recipe submitted by loup and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe. one week before: Put all the fruits, spices, sugar, vanilla, water and booze into a large pan. Mix over a low heat until the liquid is absorbed.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook boozy christmas cake using 26 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Boozy Christmas Cake:
  1. Take For the fruit soaker
  2. Prepare 600 g luxury dried fruit (a mix of raisins, currants, sultanas, cranberries, mixed peel)
  3. Make ready 200 g glacé cherries, halved, rinsed and thoroughly dried
  4. Take 120 g pitted dates, chopped
  5. Make ready 80 g crystallised ginger, chopped
  6. Take Zest 1 orange
  7. Prepare Zest 1 lemon
  8. Take 250 ml brandy (Get at least one 70cl bottle, as you'll need the rest for the tipple/feed)
  9. Prepare 250 ml sherry or madeira
  10. Take 250 ml orange juice
  11. Take 2 tsp vanilla extract
  12. Take 2 tsp almond extract
  13. Get For the Cake
  14. Take 250 g butter, softened
  15. Get 250 g light or dark muscavado sugar
  16. Make ready 4 eggs
  17. Prepare 1 tbsp black treacle
  18. Prepare 75 g blanched almonds, chopped
  19. Prepare 250 g plain flour
  20. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp mixed spice
  21. Get 1 tsp ground ginger
  22. Get For the decoration/cake covering
  23. Take 150 g apricot jam
  24. Take 1 KG marzipan
  25. Make ready 1 KG ready-to-roll icing
  26. Prepare Icing sugar, for dusting

Insert a skewer into centre- if it comes out clean, the cake is ready. To decorate, upturn cake onto a serving stand. Grease and line the cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper. Clean the fruit - lay a tea towel out on the worktop and tip the sultanas, currants and raisins on top.

Steps to make Boozy Christmas Cake:
  1. Get started on the soaker at least 7 days before you want to make the cake. Put all the soaker ingredients in a large bowl and mix very well. Leave covered in a cool, dry place for 7 days and give a stir every 2 days.
  2. After 7 days, grease and line a 23cm/9inch deep cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper (bottom and sides). Tip the fruit soaker into a sieve and leave to drain without pressing down (don't tip the liquid away! It's beautiful. Keep this and use for other things, make a syrup, or use in a mince pie filling!). Preheat your oven to 120 C fan.
  3. Put the butter, sugar and treacle into a mixing bowl and beat until pale and fluffy (15 mins). Slowly add the eggs one by one, beating for a few minutes between each egg. Add the almonds, flour, ground mixed spice and ground ginger and mix very gently. Fold in the soaker fruit.
  4. Pour the mix into the prepared tin and level surface. Bake in the centre of the oven for about 4 hours, or until firm, rich golden brown and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
  5. As soon as the cake is out of the oven, leave it in the tin and pierce the cake all over several times with a skewer and evenly drizzle around 5-6 TBSP brandy. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack in the tin and let it soak up the booze.
  6. When the cake is completely cold, remove from the tin without removing the lining paper and wrap in another double layer of greaseproof paper and then again in one layer of foil. (You don’t remove the lining paper when storing as this helps to keep the cake moist.) Pop in an airtight container and leave in a cool, dry place until 1 week before you want to serve, and keep feeding the cake with a few TBSP brandy once a week.
  7. 1.5 weeks before you want to serve, stop feeding the cake, to ensure its not too damp on the outside for decorating. The week before you want to serve, begin covering the cake.
  8. To begin covering the cake, unwrap it and discard the greaseproof paper and foil. Put your cake on a serving plate or board. Put your apricot jam in a small pan and bring to the boil. Brush the entire cake with the boiled jam
  9. Dust your work surface with a little icing sugar and gently knead your marzipan until its warm and pliable. Roll out your marzipan around £1 thick and large enough to cover the entire cake. Place it over the glazed cake and gently smooth it down so it sticks nicely.
  10. Take your icing and do exactly as you did with the marzipan (knead and roll only). Just before placing the icing on top of your cake, brush the marzipan with boiled water or a strong spirit alcohol (like brandy or whisky). This is to prevent the cake from going bad from any moisture and to allow the icing to stick. Place the icing over the cake and smooth down so this sticks. Trim the edges neatly for a clean finish.
  11. You will likely have leftover icing and marzipan. Feel free to get creative with this to add any further decorations on top. Enjoy!

Grease and line the cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper. Clean the fruit - lay a tea towel out on the worktop and tip the sultanas, currants and raisins on top. Sprinkle with a little flour and wrap the towel around the fruit. At Christmas, unwrap one and place it on the cake board upside down. To glaze, bring the jam and port to the boil in a pan, then sieve and brush the top (the flat bottom) of the cake.

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